A Tangled Tale: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Tangled Tale, credited to Lewis Carroll, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll. Read by Availle. Lewis Carroll (1832-1896) is famous for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It is less widely known that he worked as a lecturer for mathematics at Christ Church college, Oxford for 27 years. A tangled tale merges his two talents as storyteller and mathematician. It consists of ten short humorous stories which present one or more mathematical problems. The ten knots as they are called, were first published in The Monthly Packet magazine between April 1880 and March 1885, where readers were invited to solve the problems, and the solution was discussed in a later issue. (Summary by Availle)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Tangled Tale
• Author credits: Lewis Carroll
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 3:18:33

Catalogue topics

• audio
• mathematics
• puzzle
• carroll
• knot
• problem
• humour
• humor

Track guide

1. 01 - Preface, Knot I: Excelsior — 4:32
2. 02 - Knot II: Eligible Apartments — 9:19
3. 03 - Knot III: Mad Mathesis — 6:59
4. 04 - Knot IV: The dead reckoning — 8:29
5. 05 - Knot V: Oughts and Crosses — 7:58
6. 06 - Knot VI: Her Radiancy — 9:31
7. 07 - Knot VII: Petty Cash — 8:24
8. 08 - Knot VIII: De Omnibus Rebus — 5:54
9. 09 - Knot IX: A Serpent with Corners — 8:48
10. 10 - Knot X: Chelsea Buns — 12:24
11. 11 - Answers to Knot I — 11:05
12. 12 - Answers to Knot II — 9:32
13. 13 - Answers to Knot III — 9:49
14. 14 - Answers to Knot IV — 7:44
15. 15 - Answers to Knot V — 6:04
16. 16 - Answers to Knot VI — 9:30
17. 17 - Answers to Knot VII — 31:12
18. 18 - Answers to Knot VIII — 4:17
19. 19 - Answers to Knot IX — 9:42
20. 20 - Answers to Knot X — 17:28

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